Ineffable Quotes

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God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze… — Therese of Lisieux
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. — Alexis Carrel
Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the… — Pope John Paul II
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. — Toyo Ito
Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to… — Sigmund Jahn
Those who look at the surface of the sea must behold the birth and death of the waves, but those who seek the depths of… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.… — Mark Twain
Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy. — Mahatma Gandhi
The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon, and planets, glorify… — Johannes Kepler
I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In… — David Ogilvy
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to… — Baron d'Holbach
The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain… — Judith Butler
If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable. — Jo Walton
The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses… — Walter Wink
Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important question is whether… — Eckhart Tolle
We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter… — Rabindranath Tagore
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the… — Celia Thaxter
You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and… — Bruce Aidells
I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy… — Jose Limon
Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever… — Eckhart Tolle

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